The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) is the United States Government official subject to the authority, direction, and control of the President as required by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to Serve as principal advisor to the President the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council about intelligence matters related to national security of the United States of America.

The Central Intelligence Agency CIA was formed during World War II to coordinate espionage activities against the Axis Powers for the branches of the United States Armed Forces. The National Security Act of 1947 established the CIA affording it "no police or law enforcement functions either at home or abroad".

Roscoe Henry Hillenkoetter (May 8 1897 – June 18 1982) born in St. Louis Missouri graduated from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis Maryland in 1919. Rear Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter was the first director of the Central Intelligence Agency CIA created by the US Congress National Security Act of 1947.

The CIA is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States Government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence with responsibility for providing national security intelligence assessment to senior United States policymakers. Intelligence gathering is performed by non-military commissioned civilian intelligence agents many of whom are trained to avoid tactical situations. The CIA also oversees and sometimes engages in tactical and covert activities at the request of the President of the United States.

The National Security Agency Fort Meade Maryland is embarking upon a comprehensive cloud computing approach to develop a collaborative intelligence gathering system within an integrated multi-agency framework

The United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) is the Unified Combatant Command charged with overseeing the various Special Operations Commands (SOC or SOCOM) of the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps of the United States Armed Forces. The command is part of the Department of Defense. USSOCOM is headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida.

USSOCOM conducts several covert and clandestine missions, such as unconventional warfare, foreign internal defense, special reconnaissance, psychological warfare, civil affairs, direct action, counter-terrorism and War on Drugs operations. Each branch has a Special Operations Command that is unique and capable of running its own operations, but when the different Special Operations Forces need to work together for an operation, USSOCOM becomes the joint component command of the operation, instead of a SOC of a specific branch.